A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as ...

Opinion: The Founders put God at the center of the Declaration of Independence Authorities reveal how girl, 5, fell overboard ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

In a startling revelation that challenges long-held beliefs about human migration and cultural evolution, archaeologists have ...

We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely ...

An ancient human site in Germany features animal bones that were smashed into small pieces and heated to extract fat 125,000 ...

An international research team has published a new study on one of the oldest known sites for the processing of animal meat ...

Studies of limb proportions and bone strength now suggest a range, from more tree-based western gorillas to more ground-based Virunga ones. This means our models of ancient human relatives may need ...